Or:

If we're lucky, we will be well cared for by our masters, who will treat us like a cute puppy.

We made profit from that. Among others, we hosted the UK's largest site friendsreunited.co.uk which was started by a school friend of mine.

I'm still in contact with the two founders on occasion.

That's me, that is 💜 🫂

We're living in the future

I got a 45Mb/s fibre Internet connection that cost $20,000 a month back in 2001 in order to reduce my ping time in Quake

I also built a data centre and hosted some servers

That's more true than you'll ever believe 😂

FTTC, Fibre to the Cabinet, with Copper making the last half a mile.

We get about 60Mb/s down, 15Mb/s up with it.

That's the dream, it hasn't happened yet 😞

My wife did.

It turns out she lives in the next village and if the van hadn't of moved, she would have just finished work for the day and walked home 😂

So, as far as I can tell, Gigaclear is a company with 2 staff who work from home, while their head office is empty except for the cleaner, who they forget to let go.

Meanwhile, the road digging and external fibre laying is a contractor. The home installation is a separate contractor and the support desk is run by AI with a couple of dudes in an Indian call centre to monitor it all.

😂 😂 😂

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They only had one job 😂

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I think we have a political divide.

Long live cable ties 😂

When did we create a world where we can build machines capable of outthinking us and potentially killing us all, meanwhile two engineers are incapable of joining two cables together successfully 😂

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Now the lady returning my wife's car after a service cannot leave because Gigaclear have sent their van to connect the fibre to the pole and it is blocking the road 😂

This was the drill bit that cracked it in the end.

He didn't get stuck as far as I know.

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That's being hidden by a cabinet.

I'm also going to move the power to a UPS once working.

So the other fibre Internet engineer, not Ben, is in to "Crypto".

He asked me how much XRP I hold 🥹

I gave him a copy of my book and told him to stop shitcoining.

He asked me about future trading.

I told him to just buy and hold.

I gave him a brief history of my life to help convince him.

I'll never see him again, but I hope I've sent a ripple of good into the Universe, not Ripple the shitcoin 😂

It's not happening 😩

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Oh dear 😩

So apparently the fibre hasn’t been connected on their side 😂

I know 😂

Somebody else thought this as well 😂

We’re starting off with 400Mb/s because I’m not certain my old Cat 5 cabling can handle 1Gb/s

We’ll do some testing and if all goes well we’ll upgrade to their highest 900Mb/s service.

It uses XGS-PON fibre, so they could technically offer 10Gb/s

Home fibre Internet installation.

XGS-PON fibre from Gigaclear in the UK

We’re starting off at 400Mb/s

If all goes well and our old Cat 5 cabling can take it, we’ll upgrade to 1Gb/s.

Technically the fibre is capable of supporting 10Gb/s

It’s government subsidised being that we’re rural.

In 18 months time the price will more than double.

We’re getting fibre Internet installed at home 😁

If the robots ask, tell them I don’t know you 😂

I don't know what the words mean (being foreign and all that), but funny picture 😂

Yes, start conferences at 10am at the earliest 😂

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You don't get more humble than me 😂

Have you trade marked the word "Soon"?

Lots of Love here tonight 😂

That's about 50% of all homes on the planet:

Using your argument, the current peak has rate of 1ZH/s would require 1 billion homes to run 1 TH/s BitAxes

I've only seen presidents make money after they leave office.

I'm playing with nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qqsv73dxhgfk8tt76gf6q788zrfyz9dwwgwfk3aar6l5gk82a76v9fgfngn5a and going try a live podcast, probably Friday at 9am (10am CEST).

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Appreciated

I'm playing with @`zap.stream` and going try a live Podcast, probably Friday at 9am BST (10am CEST).

I'd like to understand Iran from a locals perspective, so have asked @`Momo` to join me.

Welcome

If you'd like some help about this weird protocol we call NOSTR I wrote some guides here:

https://habla.news/u/mhardcastle@nostrplebs.com

I would start with this one here for some basic concepts:

https://habla.news/u/mhardcastle@nostrplebs.com/1724842277970

If you have questions, the tag #asknostr is a good place to start.

If you want to write a brief hello, use the #introductions hashtag to allow people to find and welcome you.

Enjoy freedom speech and money.

If you don't grow up and take responsibility for your life, don't expect those you allow to be in charge of you, to have your best interests at heart.

No, it's all included.